Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin is viewing this weekend\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix as the end of his \u2018pre-season\u2019 after an \u201cextremely positive\u201d Misano test.<\/p>\n
The factory Aprilia rider has so far competed in just six of the 16 rounds run so far in the 2025 season, having spent much of the campaign on the sidelines battling injury.<\/p>\n
His return from the Czech Grand Prix onwards in July has very much been about adapting to an RS-GP that has developed greatly since the start of the year.<\/p>\n
The post-race Misano test last Monday offered Jorge Martin <\/a>with a chance to focus on improving his feeling on the bike, with ergonomic changes providing him the biggest gains.<\/p>\n As such, he heads to this weekend\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix looking to \u201cfocus on speed and performance\u201d and move on from his \u201cpath of adaptation\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very much looking forward to getting to Japan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe test in Misano was extremely positive.<\/p>\n \u201cWe did a lot of testing and took a nice step forward in terms of ergonomics.<\/p>\n \u201cUp to now it has been a path of adaptation \u2013 almost a pre-season \u2013 but from here on out, I\u2019d like to focus on speed and performance.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Misano race allowed me to get close to where I want to be, although there is still a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to continue to improve and that will be our obsession throughout the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n The highlight of Martin\u2019s return so far remains the fourth-place finish he secured at the Hungarian Grand Prix, where he came from a lowly 18th in qualifying.<\/p>\n Heading into the flyaway portion of the season, Aprilia<\/a> will be looking to maintain its consistent frontrunning pace it has shown since winning the British Grand Prix with Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> in May.<\/p>\n The Italian came close to a second Sunday win of the season at Misano after a tense fight with Marc Marquez.<\/p>\n Aprilia holds second in the constructors\u2019 standings coming to Japan with a slender 23-point lead over KTM.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Motegi hasn\u2019t been the best of venues for Aprilia over the years, with it a best of ninth last season with Aleix Espargaro – over 30 seconds off the lead.<\/p>\n In 2023, in the red-flagged wet race, Espargaro was fifth.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin is viewing this weekend\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix as the end of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18009,64,63,5744,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-165169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-aprilia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-jorge-martin","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}